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Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land‐based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abiding interest in pesticides has been reanimated in the face of changes in production, regulation and knowledge of toxicity.
Julie Guthman, Marion Werner
wiley   +1 more source

From 'killer hornets' to economic assets: the roles of hornets in Dehong, Yunnan, China. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Yang X, Tian X, Ma Y, Wang Z, Guo Y, Lin S, Luo B.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
wiley   +1 more source

Community Needs Assessment for Understanding the Health and Social Needs for South Asian Immigrant Populations in Southeast Queens County, New York City, Across Levels of English Proficiency. [PDF]

J Community Health
Mannan N, Monir A, Mishra S, Li S, Yoo N, Ahmed N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

Were bed bugs the first urban pest insect? Genome-wide patterns of bed bug demography mirror global human expansion. [PDF]

Biol Lett
Miles LS, Verrelli BC, Adams R, Francioli YZ, Card DC, Balvin O, Castoe TA, Booth W.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
wiley   +1 more source

IPM Decisions Platform - a Pan-European online platform hosting decision support systems and associated resources for integrated pest management. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Ramsden M, Nordskog B, Skog TE, Skirvin D, Marguglio A, Caruso A, Pradal C, Jorgensen L, Sonderskov M, Georgantzis N, Debeljak M, Marinko J, Brinks H, Andersson B, Travlos I, Dearlove E, Paveley N.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Keep on Keepin’ on Down Under: Administrative Heritage and the Strategic Realignment of Multinational Enterprises in Australia During Deglobalization, 1914–79

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyse the behaviour of multinational enterprises (MNEs) within a host nation – Australia – during deglobalization (1914–79). Deglobalization is often portrayed as a drastic event to which MNEs respond swiftly, probably through withdrawal from host countries.
Pierre Van der Eng, André Sammartino, Simon Ville, David Merrett, Monica Keneley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human-animal interfaces and zoonotic disease risks in China: a review of contact behaviors and risk communication. [PDF]

Sci One Health
Li H, Kim S, Machalaba C.
europepmc   +1 more source